[9fans] Spell checking with acme in p9p

[Blake McBride <blake@mcbride.name>]

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Greetings,

I am trying to get spell checking working with acme on a Mac using p9p.  I
am using the following script:

    #
    aspell pipe |grep '^&'

When run on a text selection (with >), it returns me with a list of
incorrectly spelled words along with a list of potential corrections.  Each
line represents the misspelled word and its suggested corrections.  Cool,
I've got what I need.

I can modify what it returns through awk to give me the line and character
of the word, and reformat the line to be more meaningful to acme if it
would be helpful.

The problem is that there are a lot of steps to make a correction.  I think
I need to:

1.  snarf the misspelled word from the Errors buffer

2.  Paste the word into the tag line of the file being checked

3.  Right-click on the word in the tag line to find it in the input file

4.  Select the correct spelling from one of the aspell suggestions in the
Errors window and snarf it.

5.  Select the incorrectly spelled word in the input file and paste the
corrected word in its place.

As I said earlier, I may be able to simplify a step or so by reformatting
the result of the spell check with awk, but I'm not sure what would be
helpful yet.

So, I guess the point of this is that there are a lot of steps necessary to
correct a text's spelling.  It would be easier just to do:

    aspell check file.txt

But that would be side-stepping acme.  I am just wondering how others
handle this situation.

Thank you!

Blake McBride

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